Thursday, November 6, 2014

Vintage Christmas

Tim Holtz has more talent in his pinky finger than I have in my whole body! I love, love, love his projects, blog and products! I was inspired by his artistry and here is what I came up with for a vintage Christmas card.

I started out with white cardstock and used old paper distress ink to age the paper. Then I took the fired brick distress ink and patted it in the corner to add the red and smudged the edges. I used forest moss and stamped pine branches in the upper corner and then smudged the edges. I stamped with black spot distress ink on gold paper the jingle bells to give them an aged look and take away the shiny gold. The bow was stamped in fired brick and embossed with clear embossing powder. The bells and bow were fussy cut. I stamped jingle in black soot distressed ink. I think I would like the job of coming up with names for the ink pads...that would be a fun job. After adhering the bells and ribbon this is what the card looks like. It is not a Tim Holtz finished project but it is mine and I like the finished card.

6 comments:

I agree, choosing names for colors would be a fun job - shall we apply? :)) Your card is wonderful, and I'm sure Tim would be pleased with your use of his products! Thanks so much for sharing it with us at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge!, Jerrie!

and I would have named Picked Raspberry Pickled Raspberry cuz that is what I always think it is really called. Crazy eh? I think Tim would like your project. I do. Thanks for joining us at the MMCC this month.

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Dusting off my stamping supplies to put them to weekly challenges. I am legally blind but that doesn't stop me. With magnification and extra lighting the ink is flying. I may color outside the lines or my paper may not quite match but I am having fun creating. Hope you enjoy! Hugs, Jerrie